The United States eased decades of trade and financial restrictions on Cuba, opening up the country to U.S. telecommunications, construction and financial services in a slew of changes announced by the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Treasury. The new rules, effective on Friday, are ...

Bells tolled in celebration and teachers halted lessons midday as President Raul Castro told his country on Wednesday that Cuba was restoring relations with the United States after more than a half-century of hostility. Wearing his military uniform with its five-star insignia, the 83-year-old ...

When a nuclear bomb landed in the Gregg yard in South Carolina in 1958, it left a big crater, killed a few chickens, caused the family minor injuries and wrecked their Chevrolet. Luckily, the device — which had fallen out of a B-47 bomber ...

More than a million Germans and people from around the world on Sunday celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the event that more than any other marked the end of the Cold War. A spectacular 15-km-long string of 7,000 ...

Germany marked 25 years since the euphoric fall of the Berlin Wall on Sunday, with more than a million people expected to join tributes, festivities and an open-air party with freedom icons and rock stars. Chancellor Angela Merkel led commemorations for those killed trying ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned in a speech in Berlin on Saturday that East-West tensions over the Ukraine crisis were threatening to push the world into a new Cold War, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gorbachev, who is credited ...

Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev says tensions between the major powers have put the world “on the brink of a new Cold War.” He accuses the West, particularly the United States, of giving in to “triumphalism” after the collapse of the communist bloc ...

Sweden’s biggest submarine hunt since the dying days of the Soviet Union has put countries around the Baltic Sea on edge. In scenes reminiscent of the Cold War, Swedish naval ships, helicopters and ground troops have combed the Stockholm archipelago since Friday for signs ...

U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, incensed over Cuba’s deployment of troops to Angola, ordered contingency plans drawn up nearly 40 years ago to attack the small island, according to declassified government documents posted online Wednesday. In several White House meetings, Kissinger advocated for ...

Fearing a Russian invasion and occupation of Alaska, the U.S. government in the early Cold War years recruited and trained fishermen, bush pilots, trappers and other private citizens across Alaska for a covert network to feed wartime intelligence to the military, newly declassified Air ...

Former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, who helped end the Cold War as the Soviet Union’s last foreign minister, died Monday aged 86, with tributes pouring in from friends and foes. Shevardnadze was a controversial figure praised for his role in negotiating a bloodless end ...

In early March, a mysterious ship the size of a large passenger ferry left a Romanian wharf, slipped through the narrow strait that separates Europe from Asia and plotted a course toward Scandinavia. After a two-year refit, the $250 million vessel will begin its ...